Universal pocket book handle anchor and installation



Nov. 18, 1958 D. REITER 2,860,396 UNIVERSAL POCKET BooK HANDLE ANCHORAND INSTALLATION Filed Aug. 14. 195s United States Patent O UNIVERSALPOCKET BOOK HANDLE ANCHOR AND INSTALLATION Daniel I. Reiter, New York,N. Y.

Application August 14, 1953, Serial No. 37 4,239

1 Claim. (Cl. Ztl-114.5)

This invention appertains to holders or anchors for the end strapportions of the handles of pocket books.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an anchorwhich can be used with any type of pocket book, particularly with eitherbox-like or soft pocket books, to secure the end strap portions of thehandles in position through or in an aperture in the side wall of apocket book;

More particularly, the invention contemplates the provision of aone-piece handle anchor adapted to attach the end strap portion of thehandle in an opening in the relatively rigid side wall of a box-likepocket book in a manner so that the handle is securely attached to thewall and the inner lined surface or face of the wall is smooth and freefrom projections and also equally adapted to anchor the end strapportion of a handle in an opening in the relatively thin and flexibleside wall of a soft pocket book in a manner so that the pressure of thepull of the handle is distributed on said wall and the handle isprevented from being pulled out through the opening.

The invention further contemplates the provision of an anchor or holderwhich has an apertured at head through which the end strap portion ispassed, the head having a slot through one side edge thereof andcommunicating with the aperture therein for the passage of the end strapportion laterally of the head from one face thereof to and beyond theother face and into the aperture with the end section of the endportion, after insertion in the aperture, lying in planar parallelismwith the head and being clamped on the fiat body of the anchor thatextends from the head opposite the slot and is coplanar with the head.

The invention further contemplates the provision of a holder or anchorhaving a at anertured head formed with slot or cut-out means to avoidthe axial threading of the end strap portion into and through theaperture in the head and having a fiat body that supports the endsection of the end strap portion of a handle and which has bendableclamping arms that extend laterally from opposite side edges thereof andare in confronting relation and are pre-set into a position whereby theycan be rolled over into cylindrical form embracing the end section andclamping it tightly on the body.

The invention further contemplates the provision of a simple and sturdyhandle holder which is capable of universal use in attaching handles tothe side walls of any type of pocket book and which is formed with ailat head and body, that carries clamping arms, the holder, when usedwith soft pocket books, having the head bridging the aperture in theside Wall through which the `end strap portionof the handle passes fromthe outside to the inside of the pocket book and the body lying infacial contact with the side wall below the Walls, having its armsarranged in the aperture in the l 2,860,396 Patented Nov. 18, 1958 sidewall with the body bridging the aperture and the head engaging the sidewall below the aperture.

These and ancillary objects are attained by this invention, thepreferred embodiment of which is set forth in the following descriptionand illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein;

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of the anchor or holder, showing the samein its position when used with the relatively rigid side wall of abox-like pocketbook;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevational view `of a handle installation for abox-like pocket book having relatively rigid walls, the inner liningbeing broken away to show the anchor or holder in elevation and with theend strap portion of the handle attached thereto;

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, thethickness of the parts being exaggerated for clarity purposes;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal cross-sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the anchor or holder on a smaller scaleand showing the anchor or holder in inverted position from that of Fig.1 and in the position that it would assume in attaching the end strapportion of a handle to the side wall of a soft bag;

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary elevational view of a handle installation for asoft pocket book having relatively thin and ilexible side walls, theinner facing or lining being broken away to show the anchor or holder inelevation with the end strap portion attached thereto;

Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 6, and,

Fig. 8 is a horizontal cross-sectional view taken on line 8 8 of Fig. 6.

In the illustrated embodiment of this invention shown for exemplarypurposes and referring particularly to Figs. 1-4, the strap end portion10 is the pocket book end of a handle of any type. The strap end portion10 is flexible and may be made of any cross-sectional shape. Such shapedetermines the shape and configuration of the slot 12, which, in thisinstance, is shown as substantially H- shaped and is designed to receivestrap end portions of varying cross sectional shapes and sizes.

The slot 12 is formed in the fiat head 14 of au anchor or holder whichis formed in oneepiece from sheet metal. Such material is, of course,preferable from an economy standpoint of costs and production but is notexclusive.

As shown in Fig. l, the anchor or holder includes the head 14 which isintegral at its inner straight side edge 16 with a rectangular coplanarbody 18. The body 18 extends from the center of the head and issubstantially narrower than the head, which is enlarged transversely ofthe body. The body 18 has its inner end edge integralv with the sideedge 16 and has a free transverse outer end edge 20. Intermediate theend edges of the body, arms 22 and 24 project laterally, in the samedirection and in confronting, spaced apart relation, from the oppositeside edges of the body. The arms are arranged or pre-set in` a plane atright angles to the body and are in parallelism;v The free ends 26 and28 of the arms are formed to define suitable fastening means, which, asshown, includes prebending the ends transversely across their entirewidths so that each end is inclined at an obtuse angle toward thecorresponding free end of the other arm. In addition to thepredisposition of the ends to bend toward each other and thereby causethe arms to be rolled into cylindrical form embracing the end strapportion 10, due to the angular relation of the ends to the arms, the endedge 30 of each end is made concave and the corners are protruded toprovide prongs 32 at the ends of the end edges. The prongs 32, due tothe concavity, project beyond the end edges and are adapted to bite intothe soft flexible material of the strap e'nd portion. The prongs 3engage the strap end portion in a manner not to tear or cut it but in amanner to engage it and compress the material until the prongs areenveloped thereby.

In the pocket book installation depicted in Figs. 2 to 4, the strap endportion 10 is passed through a slot or opening44 in the outer facingsheet 46 of the side of the box-like pocket book (fragmentarily shown)and through an aperture 48 in the relatively rigid member 50, whichconstitutes the side wall of the pocket book, before the impreforatelining 52 is secured to the inner surface of the substantially rigidmember S0. After the end strap portion is passed through the opening andaperture, it is placed fiat on the outer face of the body 18 and thearms 22 and 24 are bent towards each other by means of a suitable tool(or, if necessary a hammer or the like may be used) which rolls the armsover simultaneously to clampingly embrace the end strap portion. Thearms are rolled into substantially cylindrical shape, as shown in Fig.4. The important feature as previously stated, in facilitating therolling action is the fact that the free ends 26 and 28 of the arms arepre-bent at an obtuse angle to the main portions of the arms and towardeach other. After the arms are bent into tight clamping engagement ofthe end strap portion to secure the handle to the anchor or holder, thehandle is pulled to draw it out of the wall 50. Such action finallydraws the bent arms into the aperture 48, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4,with the body 18 bridging vertically the aperture and in facial contactwith the inner surface of the wall 50. The head 14 lies below theaperture in facial contact with the inner surface of the wall and servesto advantage in transversely spreading the pressure of the pull of thehandle over the wall and also reinforcing the portion of the wall belowthe aperture.

Since the anchor or holder is formed from relatively thin sheet metal,it does not project considerably or, even noticeably, inwardly beyondthe inner surface of the wall 50 and, therefore, creates noobjectionable bulges or projections. Therefore, when the lining 52 issuperimposed on the inner surface or face of the wall 50, it snuglyoverlies the inner surface of the head and body and conceals the same.The finishing lining completely hides the anchor or holder and, due tothe fiatness of the latter, a continuously smooth, almost planar insidesurface for the pocket book is provided. The inside surface issubstantially free of protuberances Vdue to the reception of the armsand anchored section of the end strap portion in the aperture 48.

A pull on the handle, such as, in normal use, only serves to'retain thehead and body of the anchor or holder in tight facial engagement withthe inner surface of the wall 50. The slot 44 in the covering or facingsheet registers with the uppermost portion of the aperture and is ofless area than the aperture, being only of an area to admit the endstrap portion, so that the facing sheet conceals the aperture 48 in thewall S0.

In Fig. 5, the anchor or holder, which is the same as that shown in Fig.l, is illustrated in a vertically reversed or inverted position fromythat position shown in Fig. l. The holder, in Fig. 5, is shown in theposition, that it assumesin the soft pocket book handle installation ofFigs. 6to 7.

The'head 14 is flat and defines a washer with the slot 12 receiving thestrap end portion 62. To enable the strap end portion to be easilyintroduced into the slot, a cut-out 33 is formed in the head radiallyfrom the central circular opening 34 in the head to and through theouter straight side edge 36 of the head. The cut-out 33 isslightlynarrower than the opening 34 and is substantially, though notnecessarily, the same width as the body 18. Preferably, though notnecessarily, the cut-out 33 is narrower than the end strap portion 62.The bounding side walls 38 and 40 of the cut-out 33 are parallel to eachother and their inner ends are beveled at 42, to prevent cutting the endstrap portion 62 as it is passed therefrom into the opening 34. TheH-shaped slot 12 communicates with the opening 34 which forms theenlarged center of the slot and provides the enlarged point ofcommunication of the slot with the cut-out.

In the handle installation of Figs. 6 to 8, the pocket book side wall 54is formed with an aperture 56 and a covering or facing sheet 58 has aregistering aperture 60. The end strap portion 62 extends through theapertures and is secured by the arms 22 and 24 onto the fiat face 64 ofthe body. The face 64 comprises the outer surface in the installation ofFigs. 2-4 and the inner surface of the body in the installation of Figs.6-8. The end strap portion 62, after being clamped to the body by thearms, is pulled through the apertures into its operative position. Asthe handle is pulled to pull the end strap portion, the anchor is movedto a position where the head 64 begins to bridge or span the aperture 56with the end strap portion bending at l66 and 68 to define theconnecting section 70 thereof which is disposed within the aperture. Asthe end strap portion is pulled, the split ends 72 and 74 of the headengage the edges of the end strap portion at their bounding walls 72 and74 and the end strap portion is forced laterally through the cut-out 33to the opposite face of the head. At the same time, the head finallyapproaches the nal position and causes the end portion to bend moresharply at 66, the upper edges of the aperture confining the end portionand assisting in forcing it laterally through the cut-out automaticallyduring the pull thereon.

When the lower edge of the opening 34 reaches its highest position, itcooperates with the adjacent edge of the aperture S6 in the Wall 54 topress the bend 66 into final form. The head in the final position is infacial contact, at its outer face, with the inner surface of the wall 54and functions as a washer in bridging the aperture 56 in the wall anddistributing the pressure on the wall from pull on the end strap portionand assist in preventing the end portion from being pulled out throughthe aperture.

Of course, the end strap portion may be first secured at one end to theanchor and then threaded at its other end through the apertures 56, 60from the inside of the pocket book to the outside or the end to beattached to the anchor or holder can be threaded through the aperturesfrom the outside to the inside of the pocket book and then have theanchor or holder attached thereto.

The end portion of the strap then may be moved laterally through the cutout 33 by merely pulling thereon. Once the end portion reaches theopening it expands to its normal cross-sectional shape, if it has beendeformed in moving through the cut-out. Once it is postioned in theopening and slot, the end portion cannot pass back through the cut-out,which, of course, remains unobstructed, since there is nothing tostraighten out the bend 66 and because the width of the cut-out is lessthan that of the end portion and further because any pull on the endportion would only cause it to pull the head up higher on the wall 54and further accentuate the bend 66.

Thus, it can be seen that the end portion is automatically, in responseto the positioning pull on the handle and end portion thereof, movedlaterally through the cut-out, positions the anchor, as shown in Figs.6-8 and forms the bends 66 and 68. The body assists by holding thesecured end section of the end strap portion flat. The body aidsmaterially in distributing the pressure on the wall 54 and additionallyin distributing it below the aperture 56, so that the pressure isdistributed above, below and on both sides from the aperture. The

imperforate lining 76 is secured to the inner surface of the wall 54 andcovers the anchor and the secured section of the end strap portion. Thefact that a slight bulge is created is not objectionable with a softpocket book.

It is to be particularly noted that the same anchor or holder is usedfor installing the end portions in both the box-like pocket book ofFigs. 2-4 and the soft pocket book of Figs. 6-8. Merely, by reversingit, the anchor serves for both installations. Thus, the anchor isuniversal, which means a tremendous savings, an important advantage inthe highly developed art of pocket book making.

The reason that the anchor can be universally used is due primarily totwo important factors, namely, having the free end .of the body extendbeyond the arms and the relationship between the body and the head, thatis, the relative placement thereof.

It can be seen in considering the installation of Figs. 6 and 8, thatthe body materially assists in the washer action of the head and it isimportant to have the free end extend beyond the arms in the bearingfunction. In the handle installation of Figs. 2-4, the headcounterbalances, in its 'bearing action, the body and serves to hold theanchor at against the inner surface of the wall 50.

While a specic form of the invention has been shown and described, otherforms may be realized as come within the scope of the invention, asdefined in the appended claim.

I claim:

A universal one-piece anchor or holder for anchoring the end strapportion of a pocket book handle to the side walls of a box-type or softpocket book; said holder comprising a at substantially rectangular bodyhaving opposing at faces and opposing side edges and adapted to bearflat at either of its opposing faces against the inside of a side Wallof a pocket book as a bearing washer and having opposing transverse endedges, a pair of clamping arms extending normal to the body and disposedintegral with the opposing side edges at one of the end edges, said armsbeing disposed in substantially confronting relation and being spacedapart suciently to receive therebetween the end strap portion, which isplaced axially on the body, and the arms being adapted to be rolled overonto the strap portion, an end extension extending axially from said oneof the end edges beyond the arms and disposed coplanar with the body anddeiining a bearing prolongation of the body and a transversely enlargedhead on the other end edge of the body and extending axially andlaterally thereof and disposed coplanar therewith, said head beingformed with an opening transversely therethrough and having an outeredge disposed transverse to the body and said head having a slotextending through said outer edge and aligned with the axis of the bodyand communicating with the opening.

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